{"id":1105,"date":"2017-10-29T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T23:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2017-12-13T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T04:57:50","slug":"hamel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/hamel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Edgar was the first American to have his farmland recorded in Township 5 North, Range 7 West in 1815.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/532\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 532.)) The township was later named for\u00a0A. J. Hamel, a township resident who established a flour mill and general store in the 1860s.((<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/historyofmadison00brin#page\/533\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibid.<\/a>, 533)) The village of Hamel was officially incorporated February 19, 1955,((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/our150years1812100flag#page\/60\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our 150 Years, 1812-1962<\/a><\/em>. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.))\u00a0and in 1960 the village had a population of 362.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1960\/dec\/population-pc-a1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1960 Census of Population, Advance Reports, Final Population Counts: Illinois<\/a> (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1960), 17.)) As of the 2010 census, the village of Hamel has 816 residents.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 64.))<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Hamel.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hamel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamel in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the\u00a0village of Hamel&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/villageofhamel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Edgar was the first American to have his farmland recorded in Township 5 North, Range 7 West in 1815.((History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers\u00a0(Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 532.)) The township was later named for\u00a0A. J. Hamel, a township resident who established a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[54],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}